James Henry Brady (June 12, 1862 – January 13, 1918) was a
Republican
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politician from the
U.S. state
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of
Idaho
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. He served as the state's
eighth governor from 1909 to 1911 and a
United States Senator
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The composition and powe ...
for nearly five years, from 1913 until his death.
Early years
Born in
Indiana County, Pennsylvania, at age three, Brady moved with his parents to
Johnson County, Kansas
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. He was educated in public schools, and graduated from
Leavenworth Normal College in Kansas.
Brady taught school, worked in the real estate business, and as editor of a newspaper. He moved to Idaho in 1895 at age thirty-three, and became successful in the water power and irrigation industries.
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Political career
Brady was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1900
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, and chairman of the Idaho Republican Party
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in 1904 and 1908. He was named a delegate to the Republican National Committee
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again in 1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 4 ...
and 1916
Events
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January
* January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled.
* J ...
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Elected governor in 1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 4 ...
, Brady lost his bid for re-election in 1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
, and returned to the private sector until he was elected to the U.S. Senate in January 1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...
, chosen by the Idaho Legislature
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to replace Kirtland Perky, who was appointed after Weldon Heyburn's death in October 1912. In 1914
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, Brady became the first elected to the Senate from Idaho by direct popular vote, defeating former Democratic Governor James H. Hawley and a handful of minor party candidates.[ Idaho's senior senator, ]William Borah
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history. A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often co ...
, went before the voters for the first time four years later in 1918, and was easily re-elected to a third term.
While in office, Brady suffered a heart attack
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, and died two weeks later in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1918.Pocatello
Pocatello () is the county seat of and largest city in Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the P ...
.
Legacy
Brady's great-grandson, Jerry Brady, was the 2002 and 2006 Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Idaho.
See also
* National Irrigation Congress
The National Irrigation Congress was held periodically in the Western United States beginning in 1891 and ending in 1916, by which time the organization had changed its name to International Irrigation Congress. It was a "powerful pressure group." ...
* List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
References
External links
*
James H. Brady, late a senator from Idaho, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920
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1862 births
1918 deaths
People from Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Republican Party governors of Idaho
American Congregationalists
Republican Party United States senators from Idaho
19th-century American politicians
20th-century American politicians